US9216412B2 - Microfluidic devices and methods of manufacture and use - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to fluid assays, for instance biological assays, and to microcassettes or “chips” for conducting multiplex assays.
- Microfluidic devices are provided for conducting fluid assays, for example biological assays, that have the ability to move fluids through multiple channels and pathways in a compact, efficient, and low cost manner.
- Discrete flow detection elements preferably extremely short hollow flow elements, with length preferably less than 700 micron, preferably less than 500 micron, and internal diameter preferably of between about 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron, are provided with capture agent, and are inserted into microfluidic channels by tweezer or vacuum pick-and-place motions at fixed positions in which they are efficiently exposed to fluids for conducting assays. Close-field electrostatic attraction is employed to define the position of the elements and enable ready withdrawal of the placing instruments.
- microfluidic devices feature flow elements, channels, valves, and on-board pumps that are low cost to fabricate accurately, are minimally invasive to the fluid path and when implemented for the purpose, can produce multiplex assays on a single portable assay cartridge (chip) that have low coefficients of variation.
- Novel methods of construction, assembly and use of these features are presented, including co-valent bonding of selected regions of faces of surface-activatable bondable materials, such as PDMS to PDMS and PDMS to glass, while contiguous portions of one flexible sheet completes and seals flow channels, fixes the position of inserted analyte-detection elements in the channels, especially short hollow flow elements through which sample and reagent flow, and other portions form flexible valve membranes and diaphragms of pumps.
- a repeated make-and-break-contact manufacturing protocol prevents such bonding to interfere with moving the integral valve diaphragm portions from their valve seats defined by the opposed sheet member, which the flexible sheet material engages.
- Preparation of two subassemblies, each having a backing of relatively rigid material, followed by their assembly face-to-face in a permanent bond is shown.
- Hollow detection flow elements are shown fixed in channels, that provide by-pass flow paths of at least 50% of the flow capacity through the elements; in preferred implementations, as much as 100% or more.
- Metallized polyester film is shown to have numerous configurations and advantages in non-permanently bonded constructions.
- a microfluidic device for conducting a fluid assay for example a biological assay, having a flow channel in which is inserted at least one discrete flow detection element (preferably an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron, in fixed position), that is provided with capture agent, the flow element being positioned for exposure to fluid flows within the device for conducting an assay.
- discrete flow detection element preferably an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron, in fixed position
- the device in which the detection element is inserted into its microfluidic channel by pick-and-place motion.
- the detection element comprises a short hollow flow element of length less than 700 micron, preferably less than approximately 500 micron, having oppositely directed planar end surfaces and a cylindrical outer surface extending between those end surfaces, and preferably so located in the flow channel to permit flow through the element, and by-pass flow of at least equal volume along the outside of the fixed element.
- the device in which the pick and place motion is effected by automated tweezer fingers engaging oppositely directed portions of the flow element, preferably oppositely directed parallel planar surfaces.
- the device in which the pick and place motion is effected by automated vacuum pick up.
- the device in which the vacuum pickup device engages an outer cylindrical surface of the flow element engages an outer cylindrical surface of the flow element.
- the device in which the flexible diaphragm sheet is comprised of a non-elastomeric, non-air-permeable flexible sheet, preferably a polyester film.
- the device in which the flexible sheet is metallized, preferably with aluminum, to reflect incident or fluorescent light with respect to detector optics.
- the device in which the flexible non-air-permeable sheet is bonded face to face with an elastomeric film exposed for contact with the fluid sample.
- the device in which the flexible sheet consists of elastomer, preferably PDMS.
- the device in which the device is constructed to conduct multiplex assays on a single portable assay cartridge (chip).
- the device in which at least some parts of the device are joined by co-valent bonding of activated surfaces of bondable material, a contiguous portion of the same sheet fixing the position of a said detection element in its flow channel.
- the device in which at least some parts of the device are joined by co-valent bonding of activated surfaces of bondable material, a contiguous portion of the same sheet forming a flexible pump diaphragm.
- the device in which at least some parts of the device are joined by co-valent bonding of activated surfaces of bondable material, a contiguous portion of the same sheet forming a flexible valve diaphragm.
- the device in which the flexible valve diaphragm portion engages a valve seat originally formed of surface-activated bondable material that has been subjected to a series of make- and break contacts that interrupt covalent bonding of the valve diaphragm portion with its opposed seat.
- the device in which at least some parts of the device are joined by co-valent bonding of activated surfaces of bondable material, and respective contiguous portions of the same sheet seal an open side of a flow channel, fix the position of a said detection element in its flow channel, form a flexible pump diaphragm or form a flexible valve diaphragm, preferably respective portions of the sheet performing all of these functions.
- the device in which parts are permanently secured by co-valent bonding of selected regions of faces of surface-activated bondable materials.
- the device in which the form of activation is oxidation.
- the device in which at least one of the parts comprises surface-activatable elastomer.
- the device in which the elastomer is PDMS.
- the device in which the bond is formed by opposed surfaces of surface-activated PDMS.
- the device formed by preparation of two subassemblies, each having a backing of relatively rigid material and an oppositely directed face suitable for bonding to a mating face of the other subassembly, followed by bonding the assemblies face-to-face.
- the device in which the bonding creates a permanent bond preferably, in the case of like surfaces, such as of PDMS, a bond of surface-activated surfaces in which the original structure of mating surfaces is substantially eliminated by molecular diffusion.
- the device in which the bond is separable such as for enabling re-use of the device.
- the device in which the bonding is substantially formed by electrostatic attraction is substantially formed by electrostatic attraction.
- the detection element comprises a cylindrical, hollow flow element of length no greater than 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, most preferably about 200 micron and internal diameter of approximately 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50 micron+/ ⁇ 25 micron, the element being substantially uniformly coated on its inner surface with capture agent for a selected fluid assay.
- the device in which the capture agent is antibody for conducting ELISA.
- the device in which capture agent is substantially absent from all outer surfaces of the element, and the detection element is sized, relative to the channel in which it is inserted, to define a substantial flow path through the element and a substantial by-pass flow path along the exterior of the element.
- the device in which the detection element is of depth greater than the depth of an open channel in which it is inserted, and a capturing layer closes and seals the channel, the capturing layer being elastically deformed by its contact with the flow element thereby and applying forces thereto that fix the location of the element in the channel.
- the device in which the capturing layer is co-valently bonded to the substance defining the open channel.
- the device in which the capturing layer and the substance both comprise PDMS comprise PDMS.
- a portion of the capturing layer forms a valve diaphragm adapted to engage a seat formed by the opposed material, the portion having been subjected to repeated make-and-break-seat-contact manufacturing protocol that interferes with co-valent bonding of the mating valve surfaces.
- the device is constructed to perform ELISA biological assay.
- the device in which a series of between about 3 and 10 spaced-apart discrete flow elements of less than 700 micron length, preferably less than about 500 micron, are fixed in a given channel.
- the device in which a fluorophor labels captured analyte, and the flow elements are exposed to a window transparent to outwardly proceeding fluorescent emission for detection.
- the device window is transparent to exterior-generated stimulating light emission to enable epi-fluorescent detection.
- a microfluidic device for conducting a fluid assay, for example a biological assay, having a flow channel in which is inserted at least one discrete flow detection element that is provided with capture agent, the flow element being positioned for exposure to fluid flows within the device for conducting an assay, the device formed by preparation of two subassemblies, each having a backing of relatively rigid material and an oppositely directed face suitable for bonding to a mating face of the other subassembly, followed by bonding the assemblies face-to-face.
- the bond is breakable, such as an electrostatic bond, to enable detachment of the two subassemblies.
- the bond is permanent, formed by bonding together two surface-activated surfaces.
- the member defining one of the surfaces has portions that fix the position of a said detection element in its flow channel, form a flexible pump diaphragm or form a flexible valve diaphragm, preferably respective portions of the sheet performing all of these functions.
- a flexible valve diaphragm portion engages a valve seat originally formed of surface-activated bondable material that has been subjected to a series of make- and break contacts that interrupt covalent bonding of the valve diaphragm portion with its opposed seat.
- the mating surfaces are both of PDMS.
- a microfluidic device for conducting a fluid assay, for example a biological assay, having a flow channel in which is inserted at least one discrete flow detection element comprising an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron, in fixed position, that is provided with capture agent, the flow element being positioned for exposure to fluid flows within the device for conducting an assay the flow element being secured in fixed position by an overlaying layer of material that is surface activated and bonded by molecular bonding to an opposing member in adjacent regions.
- a microfluidic device conducting a fluid assay, for example a biological assay, having a flow channel in which is inserted at least one discrete flow detection element (preferably an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25.
- a fluid assay for example a biological assay
- at least one discrete flow detection element preferably an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25.
- the flow element in fixed position), that is provided with capture agent only on its interior, the flow element being positioned for exposure to fluid flows within the device for conducting an assay, the flow channel being of rectangular cross-section, the exterior of the element being of cylindrical cross-section, and by-pass flow paths are defined along the exterior of the element.
- a discrete detection element in the form of an extremely short hollow flow element with length less than about 700 micron, preferably less than about 500 micron, and internal diameter of between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably in many instances 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron, the flow element provided with capture agent, the flow element being constructed to be fixed in position for exposure to fluid flows within a device for conducting an assay.
- the capture agent resides only on the interior surface of the element.
- a discrete detection element in the form of a hollow flow element carrying on its interior surface, but not its exterior surface, an assay capture agent, the element fixed in position in a fluid channel in manner that provides at least about 50% by-pass flow capacity relative to the flow capacity through the element.
- the by-pass flow capacity is about 75% or more, relative to the flow capacity through the element, while in others the by-pass flow capacity is about 100% or more, relative to the flow capacity through the element.
- Another feature is a method of manufacturing the device or element of each of the above.
- Another feature is a method of use of the device or element of any of the above.
- Another feature is a method of preparing detection elements for an assay comprising batch coating the detection elements, preferably hollow flow elements by mixing in solution, and drying, and thereafter picking and placing the elements in flow channels of a microfluidic device, and preferably capturing the flow elements by bonding two opposed layers that capture the elements while sealing the flow channels.
- FIGS. 2A , B, C Channel Closure Layer (b);
- FIGS. 4A , B Fluly Assembled Microfluidic Device
- FIG. 4 C Alternative embodiment
- FIG. 5 Mylar Film with Reflective Coating
- FIGS. 6A , B Microfluidic Valve
- FIGS. 7A , B, C Microfluidic Piston
- FIG. 8 Microfluidic Device Operation
- FIG. 8 A—Microfluidic Device Alternative Configuration
- FIG. 9 A schematic diagram in perspective of assembly steps for another microfluidic assay device
- FIG. 9 A An exploded perspective view of the device of FIG. 9 ;
- FIG. 10 A A perspective view of a fluidic channel of FIGS. 9 and 9A ;
- FIG. 10 B A magnified view of a portion of FIG. 10A showing flow channels, hollow flow elements, valve seats and pump chambers;
- FIG. 10 C An even more greatly magnified view of as single extremely small hollow flow elements disposed in a channel of FIGS. 10A and B;
- FIG. 11 A greatly magnified plan view of a portion of the channel structure, showing two channels, with four hollow flow elements disposed in each;
- FIGS. 12 and 12 A Plant views of a single channel, with schematic illustration of on-board pump and valves, and showing flow paths through and alongside hollow flow elements;
- FIG. 12 A′ a cross section view of FIG. 12A denoting the regions in which the magnified views of the FIGS. 12B , 12 C and 12 D are taken;
- FIGS. 12 E and 12 F views similar to FIGS. 12B and 12C , respectively, in another state of operation.
- FIG. 13 A diagrammatic cross section, with parts broken away of channels of a device, and depicting lines of flow through and outside the flow element;
- FIG. 13 A A view similar to FIG. 13 in which two layers ( 38 and 44 ) have been fused by covalent bonding to close the channels and secure the hollow flow elements;
- FIG. 14 A plan view of the fluidic sub-assembly of FIG. 9 , on an enlarged scale;
- FIG. 15 A perspective view of parts of the pneumatic sub-assembly of FIG. 9 , as they come together;
- FIG. 16 A plan view, looking up at the underside of the pneumatic sub-assembly through its transparent membrane;
- FIG. 17 A plan view, again of the underside of the pneumatic sub-assembly and the mating upper surface of the fluidic sub-assembly;
- FIG. 18 A perspective view diagrammatically illustrating the mating action of the two sub-assemblies
- FIG. 18 A A side view illustrating the mating surface of the two subassemblies being pressed together with slight pressure
- FIG. 18 B A magnified view of a portion of FIG. 18A ;
- FIG. 18 C A perspective view of the completed assembly, viewed from above;
- FIG. 18 D A perspective view of the completed assembly, viewed from below;
- FIG. 19 A top view of the completed assembly
- FIG. 20 A diagram of steps in the assembly process for the device of FIGS. 9-19 ;
- FIGS. 20A , B, C, and D Illustrate steps in employing covalent bonding to form the liquid-tight channels and secure the extremely small hollow flow elements in place in the channels;
- FIG. 21 A diagram of a pick-and-place instrument positioned above an X,Y translation table, a delivery plate for discrete, extremely small hollow flow elements and a receiving channel of multiplex micro-fluidic assay devices of the preceding Figures;
- FIGS. 22 , 23 respectively, diagrammatic front and side views of a tweezer type pick and place device, and its support tower;
- FIGS. 23 and 24 Respectively, picking and placing views of the device of FIGS. 21 and 22 ;
- FIGS. 25 , 26 , and 27 A sequence of positions during placing of a flow element, diagrammatically illustrating the use of close-space electrostatic attraction between the channel wall and the element being delivered;
- FIGS. 28 , 29 and 30 Respectively a front view, and picking and placing views of the device of FIGS. 22 and 23 .
- FIGS. 29 and 30 Respectively, picking and placing views of a vacuum pick up device
- FIGS. 31 , 32 and 33 A sequence of positions during placing of a flow element with the vacuum device, diagrammatically illustrating the use of close-space electrostatic attraction between the channel wall and the element being delivered;
- FIGS. 34 and 35 illustraterate element-securing and channel-sealing actions occurring during assembly of the device of FIG. 9 , et seq.
- FIG. 36 depicts a valve in an open state and a valve in a closed state. In order to eliminate the permanent bond from the valve seat and membrane surfaces the valve state is changed from open to closed repeatedly.
- FIG. 37 pictures diagrammatically a pumping and valve state sequence by which liquid flow can be drawn into the piston from the left and expelled to the right to produce a desired directional, pulsating flow.
- the assay device will be comprised of multiple substrates stacked together to create three primary layers; (a) Pneumatic/Fluidic Interface Layer, (b) Channel Closure Layer, and (c) Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer. Further, the device will contain microfluidic valves and pistons for driving, controlling, and manipulating the fluid flow.
- FIGS. 1-8 covers one particular configuration of the microfluidic device, in terms of the fluidic/pneumatic channel architecture, placement of valves, pistons, and inlet ports, however the scope of this invention is not intended to be limited to this particular configuration, and is intended to include other configurations, both known now, for instance the later embodiment presented, and later developed in the future.
- FIG. 1 Pneumatic/Fluidic Interface Layer
- FIG. 1 includes FIGS. 1A and 1B and depicts the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer (a) which is comprised of a glass sheet, such as a microscope slide (a 2 ), upon which a flexible polymer film (a 1 ), approximately 150 ⁇ m thick, with through cut channels is attached, such that they form open channels or trenches (a 3 ), which are closed on one side by the glass sheet (a 2 ) and open on the other.
- a Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer
- FIG. 2 Channel Closure Layer
- FIG. 2 includes FIGS. 2A , 2 B, and 2 C, and depicts the Channel Closure Layer (b) which is formed by attaching a mylar sheet (b 4 ), approximately 12 ⁇ m thick, with precut, through-hole vias (b 6 ) and a reflective coating such as aluminum, to a sheet of flexible polymer (b 5 ), approximately 150 ⁇ m thick with corresponding precut vias (b 6 ).
- the Channel Closure Layer (b) could be comprised of just the mylar sheet (b 4 ), with or without the reflective coating, and no flexible polymer sheet.
- the Channel Closure Layer (b) is permanently bonded to the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer (a), closing off the top of the channels in the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer (a) and thereby forming closed channels.
- the Channel Closure Layer (b) provides the following functionality:
- FIG. 3 Fludic/Reaction Vessel Layer
- FIG. 3 includes FIGS. 3A and 3B , and depicts the Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer (c) which is comprised of a thin glass sheet (c 6 ), such as a 200 ⁇ m thick glass cover slip, upon which a flexible polymer film (c 7 ), approximately 150 ⁇ m thick, with through cut channels is attached, such that they form open channels or trenches (c 8 ), which are closed on one side by the glass sheet (c 6 ) and open on the other.
- These channels provide a path for fluids (c 9 ), channel(s) to house reaction vessels (c 10 ), and provide features for the on-board valves and pistons (c 11 ).
- Reaction Vessels are inserted into the Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer (c) and it is then attached to the Channel Closure Layer (b) (side not occupied by the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer) thereby closing off the top of the channels in the Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer (c) and forming closed channels as depicted in FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 4 Fluorous Assembled Microfluidic Device
- FIG. 5 Mylar Film with Reflective Coating
- This microfluidic device contains on-board, pneumatically actuated, pistons and valves for the purpose of driving, controlling, and manipulating the fluid flow. This will include introducing and metering the flow of biological samples, reagents, diluents, and wash buffers as well as controlling the flow rates and incubation times for assays being conducted in the reaction vessels.
- FIG. 6 Microfluidic Valve
- the valves are actuated by applying negative pressure to the Pneumatic Channels ( 12 ) contained in the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer (c), thereby flexing the compliant Channel Closure Layer (b) and lifting it off of the Polymer Wall ( 14 ), allowing fluid to flow through (see FIG. 6B ).
- the compliant Channel Closure Layer (b) contains a mylar sheet (b 4 ) which is gas impermeable thereby preventing the infiltration of gasses into the fluidic channel ( 15 ).
- FIG. 7 Microfluidic Piston
- the pistons are actuated by applying negative ( FIG. 7A ) and positive ( FIG. 7B ) pressure to the Pneumatic Channels ( 12 ) contained in the Pneumatic/Fluidic Interface Layer (a), thereby flexing the compliant Channel Closure Layer (b) and creating positive and negative pressure within the fluidic channel ( 15 ).
- An arrangement consisting of one microfluidic piston with a microfluidic valve on either side can be actuated in a sequence that will drive fluids in two directions.
- the compliant Channel Closure Layer contains a mylar sheet (b 4 ) which is gas impermeable thereby preventing the infiltration of gasses into the fluidic channel ( 15 ).
- FIG. 8 Microfluidic Device Operation
- FIG. 8A depicts a microfluidic device with 4 reagent wells and 4 isolated channels ( 28 ) for reaction vessels.
- Sample is added to the sample inlet ( 16 ), Reagent is added to reagent inlet ( 17 ), and buffer is added to buffer inlet ( 18 ).
- Valve 1 ( 23 ) is opened and closed in conjunction with Valve 5 ( 27 ) and the piston ( 22 ) to draw the sample ( 16 ) into the reaction vessel ( 20 ).
- Valves 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 are closed, and Valve 5 ( 27 ) and the piston ( 22 ) are opened and closed to drive the Sample ( 16 ) into the waste outlet. Note this process is repeated for the Reagent (step 4) and the Buffer (step 5).
- Valve 2 ( 24 ) is opened and closed in conjunction with Valve 5 ( 27 ) and the piston ( 22 ) to draw the Reagent ( 17 ) into the reaction vessel ( 20 ).
- Valve 3 ( 25 ) is opened and closed in conjunction with Valve 5 ( 27 ) and the piston ( 22 ) to draw the Buffer ( 18 ) into the reaction vessel ( 20 ).
- FIGS. 1B , 2 B, and 5 Shallow channels (trenches) into which are Inserted correspondingly small Reaction Vessels.
- the Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer (a) is shown defined by a base of rigid material, in the example, a glass microscope slide and an attached polymeric layer, there being open channels (a 3 ) formed as slots cut in the polymeric layer.
- the depth of channel (a 3 ) is thus defined by the thickness of the polymer film attached to the base. Spanning that depth is an inserted reaction vessel, as shown in FIG. 5 , in the form of a short hollow flow tube.
- the glass base is 200 ⁇ M thick
- the polymeric film is approximately 150 ⁇ M thick
- the vessel is of discrete short length, a few multiples of its outer diameter.
- the channel is closed about the hollow flow element by channel closure layer (b), with a non-permanent bond.
- FIGS. 2B and 2C , 4 B and 5 Polyyester film (Mylar, DuPont'sTM) as Channel Closure Layer (b)—Advantages
- the simplest construction is to use, thin polyester (MylarTM) film, by itself as a flexible membrane instead of a flexible elastomeric membrane as is common in microfluidic devices.
- Polyester film has the great advantage of low gas permeability.
- One particular problem with an elastomeric membrane is that to actuate the valves and the pistons a positive pressure is applied on the air side of the membrane to close the valves and a vacuum pressure is applied to open the valves. When valves are held closed using positive pressure, gas permeability of elastomeric membranes allows whatever gas is on the pressure side of the membrane to permeate through the membrane and that can lead to detrimental gas bubble formation in the fluidic channel.
- Bubble formation in fluidic channels is a particular problem if, as does occur, seed bubbles already exist on the fluidic side. Though if the fluidic channel in the valve region is completely filled and free of bubbles, gas permeation is very low and not a problem to the assay. However, in the event that there are pre-existing bubbles on that valve seat, then gas permeation from the gas pressure side to the fluidic side will occur and cause the small bubbles already there to in size, and affect the accuracy of the assay. Bubbles can disturb the uniformity of the capture when the fluid is exposed to capture agent. They can change the flow dynamics, i.e. cause the fluid to flow around the bubble and change binding kinetics and so forth in that area. In general, they are unwanted because they are perceived to create variability in assay processes.
- Polyester film (MylarTM) is well known to be orders of magnitude stiffer than elastomers such as PDMS, but, it is realized to be possible to increase the cross-sectional area, the footprint of the valve and the piston, to get the same motion of actuation that one gets from a very flexible membrane such as an elastomer. There are many situations in which density of networks is not required to be high, so that an enlarged actuation region of membrane can be accommodated.
- polyester film There is a property of polyester film that may be thought to prevent it's use, that of high auto fluorescence, especially in the presence of green laser light. But there are other detection techniques, e.g. chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence and photochromic processes, which are often employed for immunoassays, in which auto-fluorescence does not present a problem.
- detection techniques e.g. chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence and photochromic processes, which are often employed for immunoassays, in which auto-fluorescence does not present a problem.
- polyester film MylarTM
- a reflective coating e.g. an aluminum vapor coating on the side of the membrane facing the excitation source.
- the stimulating laser in an epi-fluorescent detection system thus is prevented from the auto fluorescence in the polyester, because light incident on the membrane is simply reflected by the reflective coating and does no reach the auto-fluorescent substance.
- additional benefits accrue, in that one gets an increased signal capture both from the viewpoint that the excitation beam has opportunity to excite the fluorescent object of interest twice, once on its way through and once on its way back.
- the fluorescent emission is subject to double capture, i.e. the detector detects direct fluorescent emission and reflected fluorescent emission. So there is a signal benefit in using the reflective coating.
- the third advantageous construction employing polyester film (MylarTM) is that shown in the FIGS. 4-7 above and related text, in which is avoided contact of the metallic surface with the sample and reagent fluids in the channel. It is not always desirable for any kind of metallized surface in a microfluidic channel to contact the fluids for fear of reactivity with the chemicals.
- the channels are formed in an elastomeric structure such as PDMS, or formed in an injection molded or embossed plastic part or in glass or etched in ceramic, is not of consequence regarding this feature.
- the business end of the valve is the flexible membrane. That is what would consists of one layer of non-elastomer, vapor impermeable film such as polyester (MylarTM) and one layer of elastomer such as PDMS or one layer of the polyester film, with aluminum on it or one layer of the polyester film with no reflective coating.
- the piston is constructed to be actuated in manner similar to the valves.
- On the pneumatic side of the membrane it uses both pressure and vacuum to create deflection of this flexible membrane. Pressure applied on the pneumatic side of the membrane, pushes the piston down into a cavity in the fluidic channel (the pump chamber), an action which displaces fluid and pushes fluid out of that cavity. The fluid will flow in the direction of lowest pressure. So if the fluidic channel is blocked on one side of the piston by a valve, then flow occurs in the other direction, towards a vented region.
- the mechanism for flowing reagents and fluids within the microfluidic channels using pneumatic and vacuum actuated pistons is referred to a peristaltic process.
- the piston is deflected either into or out of the fluidic chamber which, respectively, displaces fluid from the piston chamber on the fluidic side or draws fluid into the chamber.
- the piston In the case where the piston is being actuated by vacuum, it is drawn up away from or out of the fluidic piston chamber area, which creates a negative pressure in that location and drives fluid in towards it. So pumping is achieved by drawing fluid in from whichever reservoir or location that is desirable, and that is achieved by essentially closing off all the valves except for the one that would lead to the location of the desired source of fluid.
- the piston of fixed dimension, is actuated by controllably switching from a given low pressure to a given vacuum.
- the low pressure and vacuum are from outside sources, and the displacement geometry of that piston structure determines the internal fluid volume displacement.
- a discrete, fixed-volume displacement per stroke For a given stroke of the piston a fixed volume is displaced, either being drawn in or pushed out of the pump chamber.
- the volume is selected to lie within the range of approximately 300-600 nanoliters per stroke, per piston, controlled within a few percent of the selected value.
- a typical dimension is about 1 millimeter long by one half millimeter wide, of oval shape, with a deflection range of approximately ⁇ 100 microns.
- Operation of the device involves peristaltic-like pumping reagents and fluids from vented inlet reservoir sources. All sources and sinks are vented to atmosphere pressure.
- the buffer inlet reservoir, the detect inlet reservoir, and the sample inlet reservoir are all open reservoirs to atmospheric pressure.
- the waste is also vented to atmospheric pressure.
- Flow is created by combinations of valve and piston states always using valves and one piston to create a directional flow. For example, flow in direction to the waste is enabled by opening valves downstream of the piston towards the waste, blocking any upstream flow, and using the piston to push fluid in the direction of the waste chamber. Because of the venting described, there is no back pressure.
- Flow can also be created back towards any of the inlets by closing valves downstream or on the waste side, opening valves on the inlet side and using the piston to push fluid back up.
- valves and pump can be manipulated to move buffer liquid from the buffer inlet valve toward the waste and, alternatively, back into the detection reservoirs to use the buffer to rehydrate dried capture agent, e.g. detection antibodies, in the respective reservoirs.
- the system enables moving flow from any inlet to any other inlet or from any inlet to the outlet using combinations of valve and piston states, never having back pressure.
- the piston operates on essentially a back pressure-less fluidic network because whatever direction the flow is desired to move in those valves are open to any of the inlets or outlets which are all vented to atmosphere.
- An oval shape for the piston and its chamber provides compactness in the lateral dimension, the oval being arranged so that the long axis of the oval is in line with the straight channel, which corresponds to the long axis of the microcassette shown.
- Another benefit of the oval geometry is basically that it provides a region of the channel that progressively expands from the normal fluidic channel, expands out into this oval shape, and then it is re-constricted back to the normal channel dimensions, consistent with following laminar flow stream lines.
- a typical channel dimension may be 150 to 250 microns wide up to the point where the piston chamber is located, and then expands in this oval shape over a length dimension of a millimeter, to approximately 500 microns wide, then narrows in similar fashion to the 200 micron channel width.
- the oval is made narrow, but still large enough to achieve the volumetric displacement needed for the assay, for example, 300 or 600 nanoliters. Keeping it thus narrow helps reduce pockets in which fluid can become trapped, or reach very low velocity, due to the velocity through the piston decreases because the total internal volume increases.
- the velocity through the pump can be maintained high enough to flush out the channel and not leave any behind while not requiring a large volume of fluid to complete the displacement of it.
- the functions of the pumps and valves in this particular implementation are to perform an assay, an immunoassay involving filling a number of different aqueous reagent liquids through the channels which contain hollow flow elements with immobilized capture agent, e.g. antibodies.
- the purpose is to capture analyte, e.g. antigens of a particular type onto the surface.
- Useful capture agents include antibodies, antigens, oligomers, DNA, natural DNA, or even small molecules for assays.
- the capture agent is selected in manner to have high affinity for a particular analyte that will flow within an aqueous sample, such as human plasma, human serum, urine or cerebral fluid.
- an aqueous sample such as human plasma, human serum, urine or cerebral fluid.
- a percentage of the analyte is bound to the inside surface of the hollow flow element, or a small number series of the elements, for instance between 3 and 10 elements, preferably 4 to 6.
- concentration of that particular analyte in the fluid volume in and around the hollow element decreases, so it is desirable to replace that small slug of volume with fresh solution.
- the fluid is pumped through the system by cyclical actuation of the pistons and valves.
- a valve close to the inlet and then applying a vacuum pressure to the piston, one is able to draw in a sample from a reservoir.
- 200 nanoliters between 75 and 600 nanoliters is drawn in; in a presently preferred implementation, 200 nanoliters.
- 200 nanoliters per piston stroke being selected, there are four pistons in the system, and since each one displaces 200 nanoliters, a full stroke of all four pistons provides 800 nanoliters per cycle.
- the device as depicted in the figures operates with four independent channels, so that would lead to four times 200 nanoliters per piston.
- the 800 nanoliters is drawn from whichever reservoir is being used at the time. If the sample is being flowed through the device, then every cycle will consume 800 nanoliters of sample, whether it is serum or plasma or another selected sample per cycle. The same is true if buffer or detection antibody is being flowed. It is always in these discrete volume displacements of 800 nanoliters per cycle, determined by the selected geometry of the piston design.
- the flow occurs in a pulsated-like manner because a piston will draw in 800 nanoliters, then it will push out 800 nanoliters, and then it will draw in 800 nanoliters, then it will push out 800 nanoliters, and so on, if unidirectional flow is desired.
- a piston will draw in 800 nanoliters, then it will push out 800 nanoliters, and then it will draw in 800 nanoliters, then it will push out 800 nanoliters, and so on, if unidirectional flow is desired.
- it is desirable to oscillate the 800 nanoliter fluid in 200 nanoliter slug volume per channel, back and forth while within the channel without, in the net flow, actually displacing that slug with a new slug. That is performed simply by leaving all the valves but one closed, and then oscillating the piston back and forth. No net flow is allowed to go through the channels.
- FIG. 4A illustrates the multi subassembly construction wherein two unique subassemblies are created as independent stand-alone devices with rigid substrates supporting the devices. After their formation, they are brought together to create a completed assembly.
- the pneumatic fluidic interface layer (a) consists of two components, a glass substrate in this case, and a polymer film bonded to the glass substrate forming the pneumatic channels and the fluidic interface channels to the outside world. That could also be constructed entirely as an injection molded plastic or embossed plastic member.
- the concept employs a solid rigid substrate with channels formed on one side.
- a channel closure layer B which is also referred to as the membrane or the valve and piston actuation membrane. That is bonded in a permanent bonding mechanism using previously described processes—plasma bonding, PDMS to PDMS, or more complicated but similar in nature, bonding of mylar to PDMS. That would constitute a complete subassembly called the pneumatic fluidic layer.
- the second subassembly consisting also of a glass solid substrate and a PDMS sheet with channels cut into those where the PMDS sheet is bonded to the glass substrate to form what we call the fluidic reaction layer (c) in FIG. 4B .
- the idea here is that these two subassemblies are created, and they are standing alone in a mechanical sense.
- FIGS. 1-8 This affords the opportunity to place hollow flow elements into the open fluidic channels prior to bringing the fluidic subassembly into contact with the pneumatic subassembly. This has been done previously by bringing those two layers in contact with each other such that the PDMS channel layer on the fluidic device comes in contact with the PDMS membrane layer that has been bonded to the pneumatic device in a non-permanent bonding way, FIGS. 1-8 .
- the bonding is of the nature of electrostatic adhesion between those surfaces to hold the two devices together. In that way the adhesion is counted on to be strong enough to prevent leakage out of the channels, but not so strong that overcoming that force at the valve is possible using a backing pressure.
- valves thus are able to actuate by vacuum actuation off of the valve seat, the adhesion between the membrane and the valve seat being such that the vacuum overcomes the non-permanent electrostatic adhesion.
- This construction process thus involves the nonpermanent attachment of the two subassemblies relying on the self-adhesion between PDMS to PDMS brought in close contact to one another.
- the device operates well and allows the user to embed hollow flow elements or any other elements either round or spherical elements or any other type of device suitable to be placed into the fluidic channel prior to completing the channels by assembly the two subassemblies into contact with each other. The device works well.
- the device is a reusable construction process so that after a particular assay has been run, it is possible to take apart the device, remove the elements that were used or consumed in the previous run and replace them with new elements—thus conserving the fluidic device, but replacing the consumable hollow elements.
- This gives the advantage of very rapidly running through assay performance tests using a minimum number of devices, giving cost effectiveness. It is useful for laboratories for investigations for instance in an investigating environment in which a laboratory is interested in dispensing or placing or spotting reagent or objects into the channels and then running an assay and repeating that process by reusing the microfluidic device.
- FIGS. 1-8 represent the concept of valves and pistons and the joining of subassemblies just described.
- the membrane or the flexible layer that is actuated by vacuum or pressure to operate the valves and the pistons is made from elastomeric material and different, advantageous techniques are used to fabricate the device.
- One of the problems addressed concerns the surface area associated with a hollow flow element as has been depicted and as has been described above, i.e., an element having length less than 700 micron, preferably less than 500 micron, and in many cases about 200 micron, and a bore diameter between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, that is fixed in a flow channel and exposed to flow of liquid sample.
- a hollow flow element as has been depicted and as has been described above, i.e., an element having length less than 700 micron, preferably less than 500 micron, and in many cases about 200 micron, and a bore diameter between about 75+/ ⁇ 50 micron, that is fixed in a flow channel and exposed to flow of liquid sample.
- Such hollow flow elements and assay devices based on them are available from CyVek, Inc., Wallingford, Conn., under the trade marks “Micro-TubeTM, u-TubeTM, and Mu-TubeTM).
- Such devices are efficiently made of endlessly drawn micro-bore filament such as used to form capillary tubes, but in this case the filament is finely chopped in length to form discrete, extremely short hollow flow elements, rather than capillary tubes. It is realized that capture agent immobilized on the surface of such a device, applied by immersion techniques, can raise a significant depletion problem. This occurs, for instance, when attempting to characterize concentrations of an analyte at low levels such as a few pico-grams per milliliter, s is desired. The phenomenon referred to as “depletion” occurs in which the concentration of analyte in the sample being measured can be disadvantageously depleted volumetrically as a result of binding to a large active area of the flow element.
- any analyte in an ELISA or sandwich type of amino assay on antigen will bind to a capture antibody in a way that is governed by a kinetic reaction, a dynamic process. While analyte such as an antigen binds to capture agent such as an antibody, the reverse also occurs, the bound analyte molecules unbind from the capture agent. The kinetics concern an “on” rate and an “off” rate of analyte being captured and analyte being released. The capture reaction will continue, depleting the analyte in the ambient volume, and reducing its net rate of capture, until the system reaches equilibrium in which the rate of binding is equal to the rate of unbinding. The gradual action occurs according to a substantially exponential curve.
- the absolute value of the equilibrium condition depends on the original concentration of the analyte in the volume of sample being assayed. Increase in concentration results in a higher signal, decrease in concentration results in a lower signal. In cases in which assay depletion occurs, the concentration of the analyte in the sample is detrimentally decreased over time. It is realized that hollow flow elements fixed in flow channel may present an excess of capture agent in the volume of liquid sample to which the element is exposed, decreasing the effective concentration of the analyte. The concentration decreases at an excessive rate, relative to initial, starting point concentration sought to be measured.
- capture agent e.g. an antibody or some type of moiety that is a capture molecule for the analyte to be sensed or detected
- One object of invention is to overcome this problem with respect to hollow flow elements characterized by an inside surface and an outside surface, or often also with two end surfaces. Adding up all surface area over which a density of capture molecules is coated can add up to a surface area on the order of over 100,000 square microns.
- hollow flow element formed of small bore filament, the element having on the order of about: a length of less than 700 micron, preferably about 500 micron or less, and in presently preferred implementations, 200 microns.
- the inner bore is found desirable to have within a range of 50 micron+/ ⁇ 25 micron, for achieving uniform coating by immersion and agitation.
- an element has an external diameter or width of 125 microns, and an internal diameter or width of 70 microns.
- a particular problem addressed here is to find practical approaches for accurately reducing active surface area of immersion-coated flow assay elements in general, and in particular, hollow flow elements, and in particular elements of the dimensions mentioned.
- a further problem being addressed here concerns treated hollow flow elements that are to be in fixed positions in channels for exposure to flow of sample. It is desirable to expose the elements in batch, in free state to an immobilization process for applying the capture agent or antibody to the element surface, and then transfer each element mechanically to its fixed position in a channel, for instance in a channel of a multiplex micro-fluidic “chip” (or “cassette”). It is desired to use a quick and accurate placement process, for instance a pick and place device mounted on an accurate X, Y stage. For such purpose, it is desirable to physically contact the tiny element for picking it up from a surface and placing it in an open channel, which is then closed to form a micro-fluidic passage. It is desirable to employ grippers, e.g.
- a tweezer instrument or a vacuum pickup that contacts the outer surface of the device.
- the pick and place action is made possible by pre-aligning open channels to receive the hollow flow elements and the surface on which the free elements are supplied with the automated pick-and-place instrument. This enables the grippers to pick up and place the hollow flow elements precisely from supply pockets to desired flow channel positions in which they are to be fixed.
- a vacuum pick up it is possible to serve the hollow elements in end to end abutting relationship in supply grooves, and engage the outer cylindrical surface with the vacuum pick up.
- an active capture agent e.g. antibody
- a supply surface e.g. an aligning pocket or groove
- the transferring grippers or vacuum pickup device and (c) surfaces of the channel in which it is being deposited.
- All of these contact opportunities give rise to possible damage to the fragile coated capture agent, which typically is a very thin layer of antibody or the like adsorbed to the surface of the flow element.
- This coating is often only a few molecules thick, thickness of the order of nanometers or tens of nanometers, and is quite fragile.
- the net result of damaging a capture surface of the placed hollow flow element is seen during read out of the assay. If the surface has been scratched or perturbed in any way, that can give rise to an irregular concentration or presentation of captured analyte, the signal can be irregular, and contribute to irreproducibility or poor performance of the assay.
- Discrete hollow flow elements are immersed in liquid containing capture agent, such as antibodies or antigens, and, after coating by the liquid, are picked and placed into channels for flow-through assays.
- the hollow flow elements are in preferred form of discrete elements of length less than about 700 micron, and bore diameter of 70+/ ⁇ 50 micron, preferably 50+/ ⁇ 25 micron.
- the flow elements are surface-treated so active capture agent, e.g. capture antibody, is not on the outside, or is of limited outside area.
- the hollow flow elements are disposed in a bath of active agent and violently agitated, resulting in coating of protected inside surface, but due to extreme shear forces, a clean area on the outside surface, for instance the entire outside cylindrical surface of a round cross-section discrete element.
- a special filament-manufacturing process is conceived that results in preventing coating an exterior surface of flow elements with a predetermined capture agent.
- Capture agent on selected coated areas are ablated or deactivated with precisely positioned laser beam, such as can be produced by a mask for simultaneous treatment of a large number of elements, leaving residual active agent of defined area on the inside surface of hollow flow elements. Residual capture agent, itself, on the inside of the elements, usefully defines a readable code related to the desired assay.
- Flow channel shape is sized relative to flow elements fixed in the channel to allow (a) bypass channel flow along the exposed outside of a hollow flow element to reach and flow through later elements in the channel in case of clogging of the first element, along with (b) sample and assay liquid flow through the hollow flow element to expose the surface to capture agent and other assay liquids.
- the element Lacking the need to attempt to seal the outside, the element can simply be gripped, as by an elastomeric sheet pressed against the element. Electrostatic attraction between flow element and channel wall is employed to fix the element in position, overcoming any disturbing force of the placing instrument as it is drawn away after delivery of the element.
- fluorescence is excited and read by special scanning confined to the hollow flow element geometry.
- Locators are seeded in the recorded data, and used to locate the regions of interest in detected fluorescence data, e.g. from the elements.
- Code, written with the capture agent substance inside the hollow element is read through a transparent wall of the element.
- the purpose of this invention to deliver a method for performing a fluorescence measurement of multiple immobilized elements contained in a microfluidic chip.
- This method provides for determining the paths to be followed during the scanning, as well as the proper focus, and camera exposure.
- the method is based on a known general chip layout.
- the method provided results in the ability to place the chip to be measured into the scanner and then start the scan without any additional manual settings required. The method does the rest, and produces the desired fluorescence measurements as the results.
- Certain aspects of invention involve eliminating or preventing the occurrence of active capture agent on outside surfaces of the hollow flow elements, e.g. extended outside cylindrical surface, and/or end surfaces, while leaving active capture agent on the inside surface unperturbed, or of a desirable area or pattern.
- Features addressing this aspect include techniques to selectively limit the capture agent on the interior surface and steps that act in combination with outside and inside surfaces to achieve the desired result.
- a first technique is employed to eliminate or prevent capture agent, e.g. antibody, from immobilizing to the outside surface of hollow flow elements. That is done during a batch coating process, and involves suspending discrete hollow elements in an Eppendorff tube or other laboratory tube with the capture agent of interest and aggressively agitating fluid to impart disrupting shear forces to the exterior surface of the elements. Preferably this is achieved by vortexing the fluid at high speed, for instance employing an instrument that orbits the container at approximately 2000 rpm of the orbiter, about an orbital path with total lateral excursion of the supporting table of the order about 0.5 cm, measured across the center of rotation of the orbiter.
- capture agent e.g. antibody
- the hollow flow elements are placed with a volume, e.g. a milliliter of capture agent, e.g. antibody.
- the appropriate vortexing speed is dependent e.g. on the nature of the suspension, e.g. the viscosity of the liquid chosen, and can be easily determined experimentally. It is set by observing whether the capture agent is effectively non-existent on the outside, long surface of the hollow flow elements, e.g. the outside cylindrical surface in the case of the body being of circular cross-section.
- the physical principle involved concerns shearing force on the outside surface of the element that acts to prevent binding of the capture agent to the surface through an adsorption process. One can observe whether the vigorous agitation is sufficient to shear off any capture agent, e.g.
- the inside surface is environmentally shielded from this shearing by virtue of the geometry which is tubular, and the micro-bore of the tube. This prevents vortexing from causing any turbulence to occur within the element.
- the observed result of aggressive agitation is that fluorescence which is observed by performing a sandwich assay is completely absent from the outer cylindrical surface, or other shape of a hollow element, whereas it is present in an observable way on the inside surface.
- fluorescence is also present on the end faces of elements.
- Vortexing is the presently preferred technique for producing the shear forces.
- the case shown here employs orbitally rotating the coated element in a very rapid manner back and forth in small circles at a rate of approximately a couple thousand rotations per minute, and an excursion of about 25 mm.
- any type of rapid oscillation that creates a high degree of turbulence can be employed, so a back and forth motion, a circular rotation, anything that would very rapidly mix the fluids and create high shear forces will suffice.
- hollow flow elements in the presence of aggressive agitation leads to removal of capture agent, e.g. antibodies, from outside surface of the elements, and prevention of their coating with the agent, but leaves the inside surface of the element in condition to immobilize capture agent, e.g. capture antibodies, for subsequent interaction with analyte of the sample.
- capture agent e.g. antibodies
- a non-stick coating e.g. sputtered gold, silver or graphite
- Silane or similar coating must be applied to receiving surfaces before capture agent, e.g. antibodies will attach.
- capture agent e.g. antibodies will attach.
- the surface will not receive the silane or equivalent, then likewise, the active capture agent.
- Another feature of invention concerns realizing the desirability and technique of removing coated capture agent from selected end surfaces of the flow elements and a margin portion or other portion of the interior surface.
- the elements are further processed using a laser elimination process that removes or de-activates capture agent, e.g. antibodies, from surface from which the agent was not removed by the high shear process.
- capture agent e.g. antibodies
- Those surfaces include transverse end surfaces and a selected portion of the inside surface, leaving only an annular stripe on the inside surface sized sufficient to process the assay, but small enough to reduce depletion of the analyte from the sample.
- an ablating laser is arranged transversely to the axis of elongation of the hollow elements with the effect that the energy arrives though parallel to the end faces has a neutralizing or removal effect on the capture agent that is on those end faces, as a result of incidence of substantially parallel radiation, but also of internal reflection scattering of the radiation by the transparent substance that defines those end faces.
- the net effect of two novel processes described, if used in novel combination, is to leave only a band of selected dimension, which can be small, of capture agent immobilized on the inside surface of the hollow element. This can be done in a way that leaves one or more bands separated by a space of no capture agent. Thus one can generate a single band in the center or a single band closer to one end or multiple bands distributed along the length of the element. These bands can be of different widths and can have different spacings and can be of the form of a code, e.g. a bar code, which is useful to encode the particular flow element.
- a code e.g. a bar code
- the short, hollow elements are first formed i.e. chopped, from previously-supplied continuous small-bore filament into the short, discrete elements. They are then treated in batch manner.
- a bulk of the hollow elements is then exposed in an Eppendorff tube to wash buffer. After washing processing is performed, the buffer is removed, and replaced with a silane.
- the silane is allowed to bind to all of the surfaces of the elements. Excess silane after a period of time is washed away with water in a buffer. Then a capture agent, e.g. antibody, in solution is added to the Eppendorff tube with the bulk of hollow elements and allowed to incubate over night. The incubation is performed on the orbital vortexer for approximately 16 hours at 2000 rotations per minute, the order of 0.5 centimeter diametric displacement by the orbital motion.
- the orbital plate that contains the numerous Eppendorff tubes is approximately 6 inches in diameter, but the orbital motion is a circular pattern counterclockwise and then clockwise motion the orbiting causing the displacement of approximately 0.5 centimeters from side to side, for instance.
- the capture agent has been immobilized on the inside surface of the hollow element and also on the end faces but it is not present on the outside cylindrical surface of the hollow element.
- the capture agent solution is removed from the Eppendorff tube which is replaced with a wash buffer, a wash buffer solution, and the wash buffer solution is then further replaced with a stabilizing buffer, what we call a blocking buffer.
- a commercial material called STABLE COAT solution is used.
- STABLE COAT blocking solution is introduced to the Eppendorff tube along with hollow flow elements, then a portion of those elements is aspirated in a pipette along with some of the STABLE COAT, and dispensed onto an alignment plate.
- the alignment plate contains a series of rectangular shaped pockets, each designed to accommodate and position a single element within a small space, preferably with clearance tolerance sized in microns, a space of 10 to 50 microns between the element and the walls of the pocket. After the elements are allowed to roam on the plate, they fall into these pockets still in the presence of the buffer solution.
- the excess buffer solution is removed from the alignment plate containing the elements by placing their plates with elements into a centrifuge or centrifuge holder and centrifuging at approximately two thousand rpm, for 30 seconds, thereby removing all excess STABLE COAT solution from the plate and the elements. This process is facilitated by the novel design of the plate, in which drain channels extend radially from the pockets.
- the hollow elements while still in the plate are further processed with a laser, preferably an ultraviolet laser, which could be an excimer laser, fluoride or krypton fluoride laser, with two beams that are spaced such that the ends and an end margin portion or section of the element are exposed perpendicular to the element axis by a laser beam in a way that either ablates or denatures the capture agent, e.g. antibody, from the ends of the element as well as a section of the inside surface of the element.
- a laser beam preferably an excimer laser, fluoride or krypton fluoride laser
- the two laser beams are separated by a fixed distance that define the desirable width of the remaining band of capture antibody surface.
- the hollow elements within their pockets of the alignment plate can be allowed to move back and forth with a degree of liberty, while still the laser processes substantially the ends of the elements and leaves a fixed width pattern near the center of the element, plus or minus a reasonable tolerance window.
- the exterior diameter have a diameter or width within the range of 1.2 and 4 times the internal diameter or width.
- length of the hollow flow elements best results are obtained with lengths of less than about 700 micron, and in many cases, less than 500 micron. In a presently preferred form the length is 250 um.
- shorter hollow elements lead to greater uniformity of the coating of capture agent when coated by the batch process described herein, and as well, shorter hollow elements are found to be more amenable to withstanding axial tweezing forces during pick and place motions.
- FIG. 9 Another implementation of the broad assembling concept will now be described, employing permanent bonding features.
- FIG. 9 The following is a list of components called out in FIG. 9 et seq.
- the subassembly 46 i.e. the controls/reservoir layer 46 , is comprised of two elements, the upper injection molded or machined plastic component 56 with a PDMS membrane sheet 38 bonded to its lower surface.
- the bottom fluidic layer or subassembly 50 has detection elements, e.g. hollow short cylindrical flow elements 32 .
- the fluidic subassembly consists of a thin glass sheet 42 with a PDMS gasket or sheet permanently bonded face-wise to its upper surface, the sheet having cut-outs defining fluidic channels between channel walls 44 , the channel bottomed on the glass sheet 42 , FIG. 10C .
- the detection elements are dispensed, in the embodiment shown, by pick and place action, into fixed positions in the channels of the fluidic layer 48 .
- the two subassemblies 46 and 50 are brought together and bonded in a way that provides fluidtight and leak-free operation, but also enables the actuation of valves and pistons by portions of membrane 38 .
- One novel a feature of this construction is that the two subassemblies as described, using a PDMS gasket, enables capture or embedding detection elements, here extremely short hollow flow elements, (Micro-tubeTM elements) into channels. Combining those two subassemblies into a single assembly provides the functionality of having microfluidic channels that contain the hollow flow elements as well as functioning valves and pistons.
- the fluidic subassembly is assembled by covalently bonding PDMS to glass, then upper assembly, the reservoir assembly is formed by covalently bonding PDMS to plastic.
- the dominant advantage is the placing the discrete, small detection elements, the hollow flow elements, into open channels prior to assembling.
- the importance of the technique also relates to enabling the immobilization of capture agent, e.g. antibody, onto a solid substrate in an efficient batch process, thereby allowing many thousands of these elements to be fabricated in one very simple batch process which is cost effective and highly reproducible.
- capture agent e.g. antibody
- features of the concept include bringing together subassemblies to capture elements in a fixed position, the capture (or detection) elements having been pre-prepared in batch process, with the final assembly, which employing a bonding process, especially the permanent plasma bonding process to join the subassemblies, and doing it in a selective way at the valve seats by repeatedly locally deflecting and bringing in contact the valving surfaces, which will now be described.
- Native PDMS comprised mainly of repeating groups of —O—Si(CH 3 ) 2 — is hydrophobic in nature, and, without special treatment, has a tendency to adhere to, but not permanently bond to other like surfaces such as PDMS, glass and silicon.
- the methyl groups (CH 3 ) are replaced with silanol groups (SiOH), thus forming a high surface energy, hydrophilic surface capable of bonding irreversibly with other like surfaces containing high densities of silanol groups.
- This irreversible bonding process occurs via condensation reaction between OH groups on each surface resulting in covalent Si—O—Si bonds with the concomitant liberation of water (H 2 O).
- Oxygen plasma and similar techniques have control parameters such as pressure, power and time all of which determine the concentration of surface OH groups. Higher concentrations of OH groups lead to more covalent bonds between the two surfaces and therefore higher mechanical bonds.
- the hydrophilic surface will undergo “recovery” back to its native hydrophobic state via migration of short, mobile polymer chains from the bulk to the surface. Full “recovery” occurs over a period of hours at room temperature and can be accelerated with increased temperature and retarded by storage in vacuum and/or low temperatures. This is accommodated by storing activated substrates at ⁇ 50 C in vacuum bags for several days to lock-in the hydrophilic surface treatment prior to bonding.
- the bonding mechanism follows a fairly slow condensation reaction which involves the liberation of water over a period of several minutes to a few hours before completely consuming the available OH sites, it is possible to interrupt this process before completion.
- the bond strength between the interfaces is comparable to the bulk tear strength leading to an irreversible attachment of the two materials. Attempts to separate the layers at this stage will lead to bulk damage of one or both of the layers.
- interruption of the bonding process by mechanically separating the surfaces during the early stages of the bonding cycle is found to irreparably damage only the small number of formed bonds between the two surfaces.
- the tear strength of the bulk is considerably higher than the interface bond, therefore separation produces no irreparable damage to the bulk.
- microvalves are formed between layers of PDMS by surface activating, e.g. plasma activating, the PDMS or similar surfaces, bringing them into contact and then activating the valves to open and close in such a manner that permanently disrupts bonding between the flexible membrane and the valve seat, but results in complete and robust bonding elsewhere over broad surfaces to hold the device together.
- surface activating e.g. plasma activating
- the PDMS or similar surfaces bringing them into contact and then activating the valves to open and close in such a manner that permanently disrupts bonding between the flexible membrane and the valve seat, but results in complete and robust bonding elsewhere over broad surfaces to hold the device together.
- a product employing the concepts described is a consumable microfluidic cartridge for the purpose of quantifying antibody concentrations in human plasma samples.
- the cartridge such as shown in FIG. 9 , contains on board provisions for sample inlets, in other words, a reservoir that will receive a sample to be analyzed, e.g. a blood plasma or serum sample.
- a completed cartridge 20 contains sample inlet wells 22 for receiving a patient plasma or serum sample or other type of bodily fluid, including cerebral spinal fluid, or urine. It will also contain a buffer inlet well 24 , buffer being a reagent used during the processing of the assay, a waste reservoir well 26 designed to contain all of the reagents and sample that flow through the microfluidic channels and that are no longer needed all self-contained on the microfluidic cartridge, also containing a reservoir well 28 which has contained in it a detection antibody with a fluorescent label. The preferred embodiment, the detection antibody will be dried down in the channel or in the reservoir and rehydrated during operation using the buffered contained in buffer well 24 .
- FIG. 10 shows the microfluidic channels containing 4 independent microfluidic channel groups containing the extremely small hollow fluidic flow elements, referred to hereafter as elements.
- FIG. 10 shows those four channel groups each containing six channels 30 .
- the extremely small hollow flow elements are formed in a batch process with a capture antibody provided on the inside surface of the elements, and those elements are placed into channels 30 .
- Example of dimensions of the hollow elements The length of the preferred embodiment is approximately 250 microns, the inner diameter approximately 75 microns, and an outer diameter of approximately 125 microns.
- FIG. 11 is a blown up schematic of the hollow elements shown in two parallel example channels.
- the channels are wider than the elements, and the elements are attracted by near electrostatic force to adhere to one channel wall, defining by-pass flow paths on the other side.
- FIG. 13 shows a cross-sectional view of a hollow flow element in channel 30 with space surrounding hollow element on the outside of the element.
- FIG. 13 depicts hollow element 32 in microfluidic channel 30 with flow arrows 40 depicted, the hollow element as captured by the top surface elastomer membrane 38 and on the bottom surface by glass substrate element 42 .
- Typical dimensions for the glass substrate layer 42 are 200 microns thick of borosilicate glass and the elastomer membrane layer element 38 has typical thickness of 100-200 microns. Also providing the channels are an elastomer PDMS material typical 100-150 microns tall thus forming the microfluidic channel. Also shown in FIG.
- the elastomer membrane layer continues both to the left and to the right as well as the glass substrate continuing to the left and to the right and on either side containing one or more parallel microfluidic channels also containing hollow glass elements, glass layer element 42 is bonded to elastomer wall, a micro-fluidic channel wall 44 , previously formed in a subassembly process using a covalent bonding technique involving plasma activation of the PDMS surface and subsequent contacting and therefore bonding to the glass layer, the hollow element is inserted into that channel.
- Channel depth is less the diameter of hollow element that are picked and placed against one of channel walls such that electrostatic forces between the element and channel walls release the placing device, e.g. tweezers or vacuum pickup, from the element.
- the placing device e.g. tweezers or vacuum pickup
- Channel 30 enclosed by bringing into contact both ends of elastic membrane 38 of control/reservoir 46 . Elements are retained in channel 30 between elastomeric 38 and glass 42 .
- FIG. 11 shows schematically two example channels containing a series of four spaced apart elements 32 and by-pass flow space 41 .
- FIG. 14 is a top view of the fluidic layer sub-assembly 48 with elements 32 in channels 30 .
- the assembly 50 contains the elements.
- each network is designed to perform an assay with its own respective sample.
- FIG. 12 is a blowup schematic of a single channel 30 containing four elements 32 and microfluidic piston chamber 36 , and valve 54 having seat 34 , FIG. 10 .
- FIG. 12 depicts by arrowheads, flow through the bypass flowpath 41 around the hollow element 32 as well as through the element.
- the channels 30 are formed by glass substrate 42 and micro-fluid channel walls formed by knife cutting sheet of PDMS of 110 micron thickness 32 .
- FIG. 9 shows forming the fluidic area 48 by bringing together glass sheet 42 and the unique cut-patterned PDMS sheet 42 using known techniques.
- FIG. 16 is a top view depicting final assembly 46 .
- Pneumatic interface ports 58 are adapted to match with computer-controlled pneumatic control lines that provide pressure and vacuum actuation to valves 54 (formed by membrane 38 and microfluidic valve seat 34 ) and pistons 55 (the pistons being formed by elastomer membrane 38 lying over piston fluidic chamber 36 and piston pneumatic chamber) piston control lines 60 and valve control lines 62 .
- the piston pump formed by membrane 38 sandwiched between 37 and 36 is activated by vacuum in one direction and pressure in the other.
- FIG. 36 is a diagrammatic view showing the repeated cycling of a diaphragm valve formed by an overlying portion of a PDMS layer, which is bonded to the opposed structure at each side, the valve, repeatedly closed with 3 psi positive pressure and opened with negative 8 psi pressure (vacuum), is found to overcome the molecular bonds being formed between diaphragm and valve seat, thus over time neutralizing the tendency for permanent co-valent bonds to form between contacting surface-activated surfaces, thus enabling the thus-formed valve to properly operate.
- FIG. 37 depicts the steps and associated valve states required to create a flow in the microfluidic device.
- Three microfluidic components are required to execute this flow. These components are an input valve, a piston and an output valve. To generate a flow in the microfluidic device all three elements must be actuated together according to the steps described below and shown diagrammatically in FIG. 37 .
- Step 1 The input valve is opened and piston and output valves remain closed.
- Step 2 The input valve remains open, the piston is opened drawing fluid in and the output valve remains closed.
- Step 3 The input valve closes, the piston remains open and the output valve opens.
- Step 4 The input valve remains closed, the piston closes forcing the fluid out through the output valve.
- Steps 1-4 repeat until desired volume is pumped.
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- Through hole vias (b6) to allow the passage of fluids and pneumatics from the Pneumatic/Fluidic Layer (a) to the Fluidic/Reaction Vessel Layer (c).
- The Channel Closure Layer (b) is constructed of compliant materials that flex as part of valve and pump actuation.
- The polyester film (Mylar™ from DuPont) (b4) provides a gas impermeable layer which is a necessary component of the pumps and pistons described later in this document.
- The reflective coating on the mylar layer (b4) reflects the excitation energy before it reaches the mylar, thereby preventing auto-fluorescence (see
FIG. 5 ) - The reflective coating reflects the excitation energy back onto the Reaction Vessels which results in a 2 fold multiplication of the incident fluorescence, and a 2 fold increase in the emitted fluorescence thereby enhancing the capture of emitted radiation by nearly 2 fold. This results in a nearly four-fold overall increase of un-reflected fluorescence signal relative to the reflected signal, thereby producing a nearly four-fold increase in detection signal.
- 20. Completed Cartridge
- 22. Sample Inlet wells
- 24. Buffer Inlet Wells
- 26. Waste Well Reservoir
- 28. Reservoir Well—Detect Antibody Reagent—Preferred Embodiment—Dried
- 30. Microfluidic Channels
- 32. Extremely Small Hollow Flow Elements (“Elements”)
- 34. Microfluidic Valve Seats
- 35. Microfluidic Valve Pneumatic Chamber
- 36. Piston Fluidic Chamber
- 37. Piston Pneumatic Chamber
- 38. Elastomer Membrane
- 39. Plasma Bonded Interface
- 40. Arrows Depicting Flow
- 41. Bypass Flow Path
- 42. Glass Substrate
- 43. Bulk Material
- 44. Microfluidic Channel Walls
- 46. Control Reservoir Layer
- 48. Fluidic Layer Sub Assembly—No Elements
- 50. Fluidic Layer Sub Assembly—With Elements
- 52. Single Sample Four Analyte Microfluidic Network
- 54. Microfluidic Valve—Full Assembly
- 55. Piston—Full Assembly
- 56. Reservoir/Control Plastic Member
- 58. Pneumatic Interface Ports
- 60. Piston Control Lines
- 62. Valve Control Lines
- 64. End of arm tooling (tweezer or vacuum probe)
- 66. Pick and Place Arm (moves up and down)
- 68. Source/Target X,Y table (moves in X and Y coordinates)
- 70. Source of Hollow Flow Elements (groove or well plate)
- 72. Target Microfluidic device
- 74. End of arm tooling—vacuum
- 76. End of arm tooling—tweezer
- 78. Activated Surface
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- Connect pneumatic control input ports to externally controlled pneumatic line/s
- Actuate all valves using vacuum (5-14 psi) so as to draw membrane up into pneumatic valve chambers.
- Bring surface-activated (e.g. plasma activated) Reservoir/Control layer into conformal contact with Fluidic Layer.
- Momentarily apply pressure (1-10 psi) to valve control lines so as to force PDMS membrane into intimate contact with the PDMS surface of the Fluidic layer. Allow contact for approximately 1-3 seconds before switching back to vacuum pressure in control lines.
- Perform initial break-in of valves by rapid performing a sequence of actuations between vacuum and pressure for approximately 20 cycles, over a time period of 1-2 minutes.
- Continue to cycle valves with vacuum and pressure over a period of 5-20 minutes, depending on the surface activation and thermal history of the PDMS surfaces. Once the initial break-in cycles are performed, a slower and more protracted actuation sequence is preferably used to prevent the slow inexorable bonding of the PDMS surfaces, until all inclination for bonding is prevented, which can be achieved by actuating the valve with pressure for up to 1 minute followed by intermittent actuations with vacuum so as to break any newly formed bonds. Continuing this process for up to 20 minutes has been shown to completely prevent future permanent bonding between the valve membrane and the valve seat.
- Other materials which have molecular bonding capabilities when like surfaces are bought together may also be employed, and the molecular bonds destroyed at valve seats in similar manner,
being formed by
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